Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, 'It will be happier'.

Lady Bird Johnson - Where flowers bloom, so does hope.

Mother Teresa - Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.

Samuel Smiles -Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

Thomas Paine - I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.

Shania Twain - When you don't come from struggle, gaining appreciation is a quality that's difficult to come by.

Kahlil Gibran - The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

Thomas Hardy - The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.

Pliny the Elder - Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Iyanla Vanzant - I hope that my story, I hope that my life is... an encouragement for people, especially in Brooklyn. I feel humbled and blessed.

Becky Hammon - Hope and encouragement, especially hope, is probably one of the greatest things you can give another person.

David Brainerd - If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.

George Santayana - To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring

Samuel Johnson - It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Walter Savage Landor - We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

Kate Summers - Friday sees more smiles than any other day of the workweek!

Thomas Paine - The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.